5/10
Paper Maze
3 June 2011
Warning: Spoilers
A music video by OMR about a balled-up piece of writing making its way through a city of typography barred by hands and other pieces of paper, until it breaks through. The content on the paper itself is a map to the exit of the city. This liminal narrative is basically a good exercise in animating to the music, which in the habit of music videos is sort of related to the subject of the lyrics, but sort of not.

It's creative and looks good. It reminds me of the ending of Brazil, but only because I feel like drawing that connection. A few shots are repeated and not a lot of different action or reverse action occurs. Again, in music videos not often a whole sense of continuity is created or required, or even expected, but at one point you have a scene where our hero is surrounded by other paper and then in the next few shots isn't, showing that adhering to the beats of the sound is more important than the actual flow of images. THUS, if you like the music, you'll probably enjoy the video. And the music was alright.

--PolarisDiB
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